Re: Linux 4.16-rc4

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

On 2018-03-04 15:15 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Hmm. A reasonably calm week - the biggest change is to the 'kvm-stat'
> tool, not any actual kernel files.
>
> But there's small changes all over, with architecture updates (x86,
> s390, arm, parisc) and drivers (media, md, gpu, sound) being the bulk
> of it.  But there's some filesystem fixes (mostly btrfs),
> documentation updates etc too.
>
> Go test,

Huh, this version does not build for me:

,----
|   CALL    scripts/checksyscalls.sh
|   DESCEND  objtool
|   CC       /usr/local/src/linux/tools/objtool/check.o
| In file included from check.c:26:0:
| check.c: In function 'read_retpoline_hints':
| warn.h:57:3: error: format '%ld' expects argument of type 'long int', but argument 5 has type 'unsigned int' [-Werror=format=]
|    "%s: warning: objtool: " format "\n", \
|    ^
| check.c:1135:3: note: in expansion of macro 'WARN'
|    WARN("retpoline_safe size mismatch: %d %ld", sec->len, sizeof(unsigned long));
|    ^~~~
| check.c:1135:44: note: format string is defined here
|    WARN("retpoline_safe size mismatch: %d %ld", sec->len, sizeof(unsigned long));
|                                           ~~^
|                                           %d
| cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
| mv: cannot stat '/usr/local/src/linux/tools/objtool/.check.o.tmp': No such file or directory
| /usr/local/src/linux/tools/build/Makefile.build:96: recipe for target '/usr/local/src/linux/tools/objtool/check.o' failed
| make[3]: *** [/usr/local/src/linux/tools/objtool/check.o] Error 1
`----

This might be because I still use a 32-bit userland with a 64-bit
kernel.

Cheers,
       Sven